Antelope Running

By Betty Walker-Smith

ANTELOPE RUNNING is the story of a young woman from a northTexas farming community who grew up with big dreams of travel and adventure. The book could be inspirational and motivational readingfor mid/high school students and other young adults facing numerous odds.Right out of high school, she went to Dallas and did office work for twoyears. She became bored with that and went to Washington, D. C. as asecretary for the Federal government. After a stint there, she returnedto Dallas and worked as a secretary. The office where she worked, sheconsidered the best job that she had ever had. One day, however, she looked at the new IBM electric typewriter and said to herself, I cannotdo this for the next forty years. Ten years, then, out of high school , through the kindness of her family and many other people, including people from the Methodist Church and McMurryCollege, she was able to attend college and get a Bachelors Degree to become a teacher. The book goes on to relate her marriage and career teaching in northern Arizona and western New Mexico.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432756869
• ISBN13: 9781432756864
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"